Three weeks after its release Star Wars: The Force Awakens has taken almost $70m at the box office, recording total sales of $69.949m as of last weekend.

Star Wars remains well ahead of any other film currently screening in cinemas, taking $9m this week from the 741 screens showing the film nationally.

The franchise remains on track to challenge the Australian box office record of $105m held by Avatar.

Meanwhile, Will Ferrell comedy Daddy’s Home took $3.55m to come in a second, bringing its takings to $9.8m, while Disney kid’s film The Good Dinosaur slipped from second to third, with $2.096m in revenue.

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Fox film Joy, about the life of inventor Joy Mangano, took $1.76m from 252 screens while Alvin and The Chipmunks took $1.64m from 300 cinemas.

Suffragette which charts the Emmeline Pankhurst movement in the UK in the early 1900s took $688,211 from 122 screens last week.

Nic Christensen worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2016, in roles including deputy editor and media & technology editor.
He is former media writer for The Australian and has also worked as a reporter for The Daily Telegraph and senior producer for Radio 2GB.